Of Simon
LeFranc
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 7:43 PM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content
My organization has recently adopted an enterprise Content Management System.
For the first time, staff across 8 divisions became web authors, given
/17/2014 10:16 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content
It sounds like what you need to do is a bit of guerrilla education for
people on good methods of writing for the web versus things
can still abuse the
system, but that's a human management issue, at that point, not a
technological one.
-Ross.
From: Nathan Rogersmailto:nrog...@unithq.com
Sent: 4/17/2014 10:16 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility
up and
take a walk, and get on with other things.
Christina
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Simon LeFranc
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 7:43 PM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility
One possibility to get rid of some of the design problems is to see if it is
valid in Section 508, if you're in the U.S. That won't help with just ugly but
it might get rid of some problems.
There are many validators out there.
Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@lpi.usra.edu
Lunar and
What¹s worked for us is education. I¹ve moaned about trying to implement
publishing workflows and other automation-type solutions, but there are
always edge cases (³This needs to go up RIGHT NOW!²) that break such
things or turn it into such a bottleneck that everyone starts looking for
ways
: Thursday, April 17, 2014 7:43 PM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content
My organization has recently adopted an enterprise Content Management
System. For the first time, staff across 8 divisions became web authors,
given responsibility
While 'letting chaos reign' might seem the best solution, we've found that it
also presents unforeseen accessibility and general readability issues, e.g,
entire pages of bolded or inappropriately colored text, not to mention making
entire websites look like, well, crap! We also use a CMS (here
One interesting thing to keep in mind wit the ‘Magic Number Seven’ is that it
is one of those things that everybody believes to be true but has little basis
in practice. Here’s a nice summary of why it is not particularly relevant for
visual design (as are many of the things on this site if you
While 'letting chaos reign' might seem the best solution, we've found that it
also presents unforeseen accessibility and general readability issues, e.g,
entire pages of bolded or inappropriately colored text, not to mention making
entire websites look like, well, crap!
This is a serious
content isn't look
like they expected.
-Ian
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kyle
Banerjee
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 1:12 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content
While
My organization has recently adopted an enterprise Content Management System.
For the first time, staff across 8 divisions became web authors, given
responsibility for their division's web pages. Training on the software, which
has a WYSIWYG interface for editing, is available and with
Simon LeFranc wrote:
There is no one person in the organization with the time or authority to act as
editorial overseer. What are some techniques for ensuring that the site
maintains a clean, professional appearance?
Give up and let chaos reign
On Apr 17, 2014, at 9:13 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net
wrote:
Give up and let chaos reign supreme?
Yep! That's what I would do. -- ELM
I would investigate what technical solutions the CMS offers. Things like
red text should be able to be limited; basic filters can strip out style
attributes and leave authors with the choice of only a few, pre-defined
tags (p, a, headers, lists, etc.) with globally-defined styles. If your CMS
It sounds like what you need to do is a bit of guerrilla education for people
on good methods of writing for the web versus things that are not appropriate
for a professional setting. I have dealt with (and still am) a similar
situation. The best approach I find is often to do a better version
/17/2014 10:16 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content
It sounds like what you need to do is a bit of guerrilla education for people
on good methods of writing for the web versus things
Do usability studies to demonstrate to others how things can be improved. --ELM
18 matches
Mail list logo
